My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!

Fiction novels, that's my game.

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

It's tricky when I'm constantly traveling and adjusting to new time zones and trying to also keep up with my workouts.

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.