"In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with."
"Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything."
"All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above."
"I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades."
"You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…"
"When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present."
"can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs..."
"thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies...your neck, can I Savion on it?"
"A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before."
"Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness."
"Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more."
"Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame."
"Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself."
"When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise."
"Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil."
"The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it.."