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

I'm going to quit writing.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

History passes the final judgment

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.