American Quotes

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the co

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I never felt I left the stage.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

I like pushing boundaries.