I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.