Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
Octavia ButlerI'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.
Octavia ButlerWell, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
Octavia Butler