I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.

Different groups in different areas developed different traits to assure their survival.

I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a "relationship" or, heaven forbid, marriage.

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.