“Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.”

“There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.”

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”

“In love people often overlook flaws, dismiss weaknesses, and even forget mistakes. But when that feeling gradually diminishes and then leaves, they turn into a different person than they were before.”

“creative people always suffer from depression because we're so
super sensitive and special?”

“There are some people so stupid you have to show them everything. I didn’t realize that there are people so stupid you can’t show them anything.”

“Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”

“But racial bias isn’t epidemic in law enforcement any more than it is epidemic in academia or the arts. In fact, I believe law enforcement overwhelmingly attracts people who want to do good for a living—people who risk their lives because they want to help other people. They don’t sign up to be cops in New York or Chicago or L. A. to help white people or black people or Hispanic people or Asian people. They sign up because they want to help all people. And they do some of the hardest, most dangerous policing to protect people of color.”

“Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.”

“We stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. So we didn't visit Memphis until about 1984.”