To read and write is a paradise.

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.

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

Talking behind someones back does not make you better. It only demonstrates how much of a coward you are for not saying it in the persons face.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

Intuition is a walkie-talkie between the personality an the soul.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

I'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.