I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

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.

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

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.