We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers.

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.