I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

His gaze was so soft that she would like to wrap herself with it.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, ’cause I’m just funny that way.

Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.

Why accept failure when success is free?

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.