“When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people...” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

“When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.”

“The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.”

“Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.”

“My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.”

“Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.”

“What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'”