General Sayings

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget that you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

True love can be defined as the love of a good woman and a good cigar.

I'm not a science fiction writer. I've only written one science fiction book in my life, and that's 'Fahrenheit 451.' All the others are fantasy.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The black man is a child, and must be treated as such.

All for one, and one for all.

There are two kinds of fools: one knows not what he does, and the other knows not what he says.

I am not a Caesar, nor a Borgia, nor a Napoleon. I am only a poet.

It is not a question of how much you can love, but how much you can bear.

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

The most terrible of all feelings is the feeling of having hope without a future.

Don't look for meaning in everything. Do you find meaning in a chair?

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sway all over.

It's getting so bad, a colored man hasn't got any country.

I don't play notes, I play feelings.