Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.
Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.
A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. Teaching may look like administering a dose, but even a dose must be worked on by the body if it is to cure. Each individual must cure his or her own ignorance.
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.