"If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that."

“A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power.”

“The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.”

“Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.”

“If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”

“Who do you think's better looking people in the north or people in the south?”

“I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.”

“God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.”

“I think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.”