It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.

I don’t know when reading books became the most essential thing about me, but it happened over the years and I found myself the most willing servant of what I considered a rich habit.

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills.

My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that.

It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves.

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she’s tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.

Only by changing the state of consciousness can we change mankind.

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor.

Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

The FBI with their heavy influence on the judiciary system has successfully blocked me on every turn.

Whats special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!