It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine.

I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

Home is the place where there is somebody who does not wish you any pain.

You can get away with anything as long as it works.

I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake.

People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."

The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.

If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

feminism is for everybody

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.

Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.