You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time..

I don't like to read novelizations of movies..

You can't find what doesn't exist, but you can create it..

All change begins with someone having a thought..

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own..

While success has hardly come overnight for me, it always comes..

The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back..

Be sure that whatever you are is you..

The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to unders….

Africa is the future..

There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better..

We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism..

Some will always be above others..

The simpler things are, the happier they are..

The capture of Saddam has not made America safer..

This is for my G's, this is for my Hustlas..

Everything is going to change..

Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad..

Women don't have an expiration date..

I respect music, I do. I love it..