The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.
Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.
There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.
I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.
Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions. . . and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.
Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it. . . Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.