All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are.

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN..

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing..

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

Be bold. You gotta be bold..

The human race has improved everything, but the human race..