I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.