I lost an arm on my last trip home.

The big talent is persistence.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

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