I am nobody but myself.

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Power, for the writer lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.