When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood. ' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Lost time is never found again.
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
Shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on. . . Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes. . she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that.
My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.