Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.

If there is such a things as "race", there is only the Human one.

Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.

I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.

I have zero tolerance for people with zero tolerance.

Hobbies may eventually grow into a major activity that brings money

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.

Your first love is like your first language. No matter how many other languages you speak, you can never be as good as in your first.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.

Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.