Best 19 quotes of Mat Johnson on MyQuotes

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters.

I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I've dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.

I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it.

I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

I've been writing forever, 20 years.

Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m., minimal human contact. That's living the dream.

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real.

The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

A man's daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.

Crackheads destroy things. First, their lives, obviously. And then their families. But they also destroy houses. They light fires and they have poor judgment; both things are required if you're going to be a crackhead. They make houses burn down. They're not as thorough as meth heads, who have the benefit of their exploding labs, but crackheads have left a respectable number of ruined buildings in their wake. A crackhead did it is a reasonable cause of destruction on any forensic report. A history of crackhead infestation is a legitimate explanation for loss of property.

Every misogynist came out of a woman.

Forgiveness comes later in life, after you've created enough disasters of your own.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.

People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn't matter what form they take.