Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]
If you are good at something never do it for free but if someone needs your help and deserve the help do it for free you will get respect..
To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
I'd take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I'd step in front of you even though I've never met you.
Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?
The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.
I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.
Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.
When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.
Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.
My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
