Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it’s a vortex that can’t and won’t be stopped.

...a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.

Telling the right thing is not enough

They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,

The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.

Time can be an ally or an enemy.