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Literature is a house with many mansions.

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

Mom came from what has been called the poorest place in America - Lake Providence, Louisiana. She was born on the south side of the Mississippi which was mainly African American and even poorer than the rest.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us both to our own insights and to a higher and deeper level of inner guidance. We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. Writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. We should write because writing is good for the soul. We should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in. We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.

Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

If a little labour, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

What is the upside of inequality? I would say that it's a deep pool of properly trained, highly motivated talent that is endeavoring to create innovation that grows our knowledge-based economy.

And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment, in this presence. But you have a life too that you remember. It stays with you. You have lived a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present, and your memories of it, remembered now, are of a different life in a different world and time. When you remember the past, you are not remembering it as it was. You are remembering it as it is. It is a vision or a dream, present with you in the present, alive with you in the only time you are alive.