[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.