When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
I never allowed my fear to limit me.
A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.
You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.
I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug. . I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me. . yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em. . if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.
God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.
When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.
Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.
When dogs are actually looking at you, they're essentially hugging you with their eyes.