In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.