I Need, Therefore I Imagine.

For Me, Life Without Literature Is Inconceivable. I Think That Don Quixote In A Physical Sense Never Existed, But Don Quixote Exists More Than Anybody Who Existed In 1605. Much More. There's Nobody Who Can Compete With Don Quixote Or With Hamlet. So In The End We Have The Reality Of The Book As The Reality Of The World And The Reality Of History.

The United States Has Written The White History Of The United States. It Now Needs To Write The Black, Latino, Indian, Asian And Caribbean History Of The United States.

I Live Through Risk. Without Risk There Is No Art. You Should Always Be On The Edge Of A Cliff About To Fall Down And Break Your Neck.

The Citizen Takes His City For Granted Far Too Often. He Forgets To Marvel.

One Puts Off The Biography Like You Put Off Death. To Write An Autobiography Is To Etch The Words On Your Own Gravestone.