Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?”“Careful. You’re talking about the man I love.

Don’t freak out, I’m getting into the bed, ” he said.

Poppy: What makes you think I'm having dinner with you?Jake: Because you can't sit in your room and eat ice cream and chips two nights in a row. You'll get scurvy. You need vitamin C.

I seek to know my divine self.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

My weapon is literature

I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

The real reality is always just around the corner.

To say, “I've been converted and that's that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.