“Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.”

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn’t run in races! Come on!

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was ‘coded’: it was called ‘Reasonable Doubt.’ So the things I was talking about…

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.