Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.