People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.