A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.

Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.

Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

I bleed myself to be your drink:Is not the blood of poets—ink?

Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

When we overemphasise miracles we are saying people could get something without qualification and merit.

Sharks are the lions of the sea.They glamorize the oceanic glory.

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt... but a find; not a greeting... but a proclamation; not an outward fashion... but inward grace; not a day... but an eternity.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

We don't have time to be sad

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.