We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

Love is impossible without bite marks.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

Money buys everything, even true love.

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

I only believe in those who can still blush.

Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.

I'll always touch you.

Jung Min’s palms are always sweating and he wears strange socks!

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

Alice: "No one will dare to call you plain when I'm through with you." Bella: "Only because they're afraid you'll suck their blood.

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.