There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.

A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy