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

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

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

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

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.