Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

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.

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.

You should always control the strengths you have available to you, never let them languish or, worse, allow others to control them for you.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.

The news of Mr. Breitbart’s death came as a surprise to me when I was informed of it this morning. My prayers go out to Mr. Breitbart’s family as they cope during this very difficult time.

I've learned to love my brown eyes.

Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.