I have great respect for the past.

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.