I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things..

I've aged, but grown up? No..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape ex….

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right..

I've got another friend who is half-German and half-Polish. He hates Jews but can't remember why!.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting..

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

Reason, you'll always be half-blind..

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face..

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful..

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise..