We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.

There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.