Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.