I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.

I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

When you're at the basketball court watching a game, one person may be talking about a fight he had with his wife, another is talking about the last hard-on he got, someone else is talking about the presidential election. The language and the tone and the voice - I'd love to be able to capture that spontaneity.

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.