That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.