I'm not a rock star. Sure I am to a certain extent because of the situation but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star I say leave me alone I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame I'm in it because I like to play.

One ever feels his twoness - an American a Negro two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

One already feels like an anachronism writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.