I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

I don't think I'm a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.