All Stories are True.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn’t even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is a spiritual experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

Don't the wounded bird still sing?