I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.