“She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.”

And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won’t last.

You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.