God is man idealized.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

In America, black is a country.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

There is no depth to education without art.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

...if he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a reason and with her it would have been next to impossible to think up another one....

When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

You're stubborn, Vlad.""Is that a compliment?

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.

There's nothing better than online shopping in your PJ's with a glass of wine with the kids asleep!

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

A child should have every advantage - including those taught by disadvantage.