My father was very big on marriage.

The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

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

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

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.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.