I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

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

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

I'm going to quit writing.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.