"I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way."

“Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.”

“Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”

“There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.”

“I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.”

“We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When somebody is 19 years old, they're gonna do what they're gonna do just like we did... For me the most important thing was for him to know anytime he can call and I'll come whatever happens.”

“The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.”

Source : Charles Williams (2016). “Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.”

“I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.”

Source : "Are You Man Enough to Skate with Mary?" by Steve Friedman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.