As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.
Colson WhiteheadThe thing I love about New York is getting lost but not worrying, just wandering and wandering, knowing that there's always a subway only ten blocks away in any direction. There's always a new neighborhood to discover, a new place to lose your bearings in, and yet however alien it seems you can escape. You can always get a cab. All of life's problems can be solved by hailing a cab.
Colson WhiteheadThe city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.
Colson WhiteheadI think you're only post-racial when you stop asking if you're post-racial. When the Neanderthals finally stopped asking themselves if they were in a post-saber tooth society, that's when they were post-saber tooth.
Colson Whitehead