It is natural to want to have a future.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.