"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

I'm the worst thing since Elvis Presley, to do Black music so selfishly and use it to get myself wealthy.

Childhood is the first and last frontier of literature.

You know what it’s like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don’t have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.