The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.