If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

All Stories are True.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in a soft-rich ground. Do not expect people to invest in you if you're a lazy type.

Many times it takes just one member of a family to initiate the action to bring a family back together again.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

Risk means that more things could happen that will happen

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.