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

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.

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.

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.

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

Life is what you think about it.

Everything's temporary...until it's not.

The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

When you give of yourself, it's draining.

It took me sixteen years to write.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.