Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to be indifferent to the simple mention of either group. We're two insightful people looking for reasons to love ourselves; and let's not forget we both love pork and wear sandals with socks.
I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything. It's not something I feel comfortable doing. But sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition. I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it. But what am I willing to do for that? I struggle with that a little bit. I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner. I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff very much.
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.
Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon. " I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.
Ever, if I’ve learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it’s that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.
No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.
Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.