Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.