The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Nowadays when a good-looking woman flirts with me, however idly, I guffaw like some ruddy English lord, haw haw, har har, harr harr.

The origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.

At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts.

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.

It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.

Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.

I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Her nose was perfect; her lips exquisite. Like a master placing a go stone on the board after long deliberation, he placed the details of her beauty one by one in the misty dark and drew back to savour them.

Those words of my friend were like fertilizer poured over the poisonous weed of an idea deeply planted in me.

But this girl simply let my hands gather on her own small, plump hands, like flies gathering on someone who is taking a nap.

True pain can only come gradually. It is exactly like tuberculosis in that the disease has already progressed to a critical stage before the patient becomes aware of its symptoms.

Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside.