There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?

Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Don't come around and try come gas me up, I like running on E

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

I'm a goofball and a comedian.