Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

today start with a THOUGHT, turn it into IDEA tomorrow, next day you will see it in REALITY

Love is not merely an attribute of God’s character but the essence of his being

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

Life is too short to spend another moment imprisoned by the will of another.

I think I've found someone with who I want to spend my life with and that person...Isn't you.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.