As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.