A ruling government can't afford to publish history in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection.

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself.

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck

If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.

Many lies lie between one truth.

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

All writing is dreaming

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

I do like to play people I wouldnt want to spend five minutes in a room with.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.