And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

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.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.