As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love

Whenever you want to marry someone go have lunch with his ex-wife.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your evolution.

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care.