I hope we have American-topias.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

No one could have imagined a place like Havana, Cuba. It is absurdly contradictory, always arguing with itself over whether it is audacious or meek, heroic or stupid, beautiful or abhorrent.

There are three people one can never reason with: a drunk, a crazy person, and a fool.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.

I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin