Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

Freedom is never free.