I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
For things to change, you have to change.
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.
She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.