I often long to. . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.
I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.
I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.
I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.
I look most like myself. . . when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage. '
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.