I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously.

To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.

You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation. It's not a surprise. It's comfort.

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

But even then I knew it wasn’t me that saved her life. It wasn’t about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn’t.

It is our business to proffer solution to the problem of the society.

God doesn't need me to believe in Him. Believing in myself satisfies him just as much.

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

He that will learn to pray let him go to Sea.

Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.

It's easy to clean up when you got money.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.