Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

I am really quite proud of most of the people I " know who have "made it," who do things to help people.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.