Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.
Self-confidence is a terrible, terrible thing; it's also the most attractive thing.
All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage.
At the same time, we can't blame comedians for taking time to learn. Any critic of comedy who believes that he has always, universally, been on the right side of justice is engaging in a hypocrisy that is itself a joke.
A nice thing about being 40 is that you're not a kid about your understanding of sex or sexuality anymore.
I want so much to believe in true love.
When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids. " My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.
I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity brought to the lives of the Africans who were forced to come to America.
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
We are but dust and shadows.