For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving towards some other place, moving away from puny language, from all that dread into some other kind of language.

I like marriage. The idea.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.