She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)