"I don't consider myself a very religious person in any."

“If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.”

“The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.”

“My family spent many years sleeping side by side in the same room. It's important for me to not separate myself from them or to say that I've suffered more than they have because I'm gay. We all suffered from the same political rejection, and from poverty. When you're starving with eleven other people in the same room, you become connected to them forever. We were all hungry at the same time.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”

“Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.”

“Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.”

“Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...”

Source : Samuel R. Delany (2013). “About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

“The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.”