I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

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

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

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

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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

Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.