A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

Nobody can teach me who I am.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.