“The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)”

“The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply what has taken you so long to learn.”

“How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end.As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?”

“I've learned not to trust what I see on television.”

“She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek..."Don't do that", I said. "You just met me. This is New York.”

“What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?”

“His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.”