I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.