Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.