You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

All Stories are True.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable in the framework of his neurosis.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.

Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.

Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

In America, we do cheat. We have people who cheat in elections.