A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

Pain is a part of life. I hated that fact. I would be much happier without it but then it wouldn't be my life.

Ruexner chuckled and put away his knife. Gisela kept her eyes on Valten. Even though her bottom lip trembled, she still looked like the bravest woman he had ever seen.

I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot." Fang

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.

We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

True art is reverent imitation of God.