I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

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.

A good loneliness is better than a bad friendship.

Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.

In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.

Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme)

What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.

There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.