Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

I am nobody but myself.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.