I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
Why should I be worried about death?
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.
Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!
All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.
I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!
We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. Infact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is in this case is the evil place won over the good people.
This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U. S. A. you are referring to categories again.
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.