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.

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.

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.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.

Wrinkles ? Why all the fuss ? Think of them as lines of distinction

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.