The older we get the less afraid we are.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

I'm going to quit writing.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.