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.

All Stories are True.

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.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.

None of us is promised tomorrow... So whenever an opportunity has presented itself for me I'm willing to take it.

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.