The first CD said exactly what it was. I was just in the streets hustling. I come from a family of hustlers.
Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.
Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.
Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes. " "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.
Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.
I like my men like I like my roses by the dozen.
Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.
Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.