Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught how to eat with proper table manners and all that stuff, to the point of rebellion. But I couldn't have rebelled from it if I didn't know it.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.