I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.