Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.