I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.