One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.