Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.