"…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears."

"Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places."

"But ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up."

"Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n аw. That's it; end ay fuckin story."

"His mind raced through past horrors experienced first hand and from the accounts of others. He mentally flipped through a grim database which contained everything from vegan flatmates to psychotic pimps."

"But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even."

"Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe."

"Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and intellectual mediocrity."

"Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word."

"Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time."

"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

"My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records."

"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."

"The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to drop?"

"We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it"

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

"Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."

"It makes it a lot smoother. At the beginning of the game, it's more my time. Then when Jamaal comes in, I can kind of concentrate on other areas and it's more his time."

"We are the intelligence that has evolved in time out of the space and matter of the solar system, and specifically the earth…"

"I think we're really running out of time. We probably ran out of time already. It's been unfortunate that the city and the county haven't been willing to work with us over the last two or three years."

"Greenspan should weigh against asset markets in the good times -- just as he works to support them in the difficult times. He's been one-sided in his policies,"

"I value my core fans I got from the hood. I think a lot of things might hit home with them, like problems with the law or how I talk about partying - all the different topics I cover when I do rap. But I also value my suburban fans who take a liking to my music and like the way I change cadences. I appreciate all of them cause both types of fans push me to record all the time, both push me to give my best when I do a show. Both push me to be the best rapper and not just do it as a hobby, but do it as a job and take it seriously and put pride in it."