I don't very often read novels.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

My father was very big on marriage.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.