I'm still vulnerable and still weak.

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.

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

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.

But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding.

Patience is for those who can't be bothered with procrastination!

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

his parabatai rune was bleeding

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.