Suggestion is a literary strategy.

What you are will make you what you will become.

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.