Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.

I am not a ventriloquist.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.