"You come into this world a zero, and you leave a zero."

"People ask me, 'Why Des Moines?' I say, 'Why not, you ignorant motherfucker!'"

"I am not a drag queen."

"I'm Jamaican, y'know."

"[There is] an increasing insistence by the customers on using consumption to express themselves, to help in fashionin…"

"Initially, advertising slogans influenced me the most. I really liked the way that language was aggressive and immedi…"

"Willie Nelson has an ability that is particular to country music – these one-liners that set up a whole song, then ev…"

"Hidden by distance, the darkness behind the stars reached an impenetrable black density. Light, thought, and possibil…"

"There's a point when you wake up from a drunk, in perfect clarity. The synapses in your brain feel greased, and the d…"

"In order to come out the winner, in my mind, I memorized their faces, down to the smallest detail, the smallest nuanc…"