Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.