Writing is a delicious agony.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.