Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town..….
One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to ….
Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other..
I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool..
I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing Th….
Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself..
It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal..
We are generally punished by where we have sinned..
When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, ….
Doubtless there are other roads..
Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it ….
All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you eac….
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing..
You can't find what doesn't exist, but you can create it..
Only an 'almost,' a 'nearly,' is possible..
The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night..
The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even thoug….
Sometimes people think success comes over night. There is no such thing, anyone you ever see that is successful has worked at it and if they do it we….
I don't like to read novelizations of movies..
Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep ….
Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up..