The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

I need, therefore I imagine.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Love what you are.

I've got some bad news and I've got some good news. Nothing lasts forever.

It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.

Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

Good customers want good quality service. Great customers want it even more.