I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.