Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance.

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

Even mistakes can get you one step further.

I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.