The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.

The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.