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

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

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

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.