I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

I need, therefore I imagine.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

The first principle of all action is leisure.

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

How wise must one be to be always kind.

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.