Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.