It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.

Everyone's light turns on at their own time.

I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.