There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.
I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.
I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.
I'm 6ft 7in and I was a bit like a giraffe on the tennis court, though I did play at county level.
To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Those houses are not supposed to be there.
Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake.
I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.
We are floating in a house that is now floating down the river, call mom and dad. I love you, and pray.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
Silence was never written down.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
