I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.