The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.

The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.