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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

God is our strongest anchor.

Prey cannot bribe its way out of a predator’s hand.

He can smell his cologne, his shampoo, and something else -- he can smell the boy's own scent, something bittersweet.

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

Go out of your way to make an outstanding first impression.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.