I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

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.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.