People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it. "
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.
A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself.
New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.
A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.
I've been very lucky, man. Like you say, though, the writing is what kicked all that in and made it possible. It's something that I have always been very thankful of, that that kicked in, and that I could be free with the music.