Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

A fiery spirit bursts from your soul.

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

I've noticed a surge when I go out somewhere, or if I'm doing stand-up.

When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!

Freedom is a clear conscience.