The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort of learn how to deal with that kind of stimulation on its own. So that's a very important form of adversity.

What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what I write is liked by the public, I have immediate feedback. There are so many things I want to say - about events in the news, politics, the gamesmanship and manipulations I read about, thoughts that occur to me about the power game, advice, on and on.

Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.