I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".
By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
I personally think that today, Iraq without Saddam Hussein is a truly better Iraq than with Saddam Hussein, but naturally I also feel uncomfortable due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction.
I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.