I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game.

I don't think there can be anyone on earth more happy than I am right now. Inside, I feel fulfilled.

I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.

I like people recognizing me.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough

Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

We are what we repeatedly do but we can be perceived by what we repeatedly say.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.