As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.
You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1. 40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
I love being in the gym.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough. ' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.