Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.
Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.
Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.
being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.
Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.
Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.
The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.