"In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond."

“A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.”

“Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.”

“Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.”

“Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.”

“Football is the best way to get to know a people and a city.”

“The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.”

“I've stolen a lot. Let me think about the best thing I've stolen. Stolen a lot of hearts.”

“I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes”