Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.

Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to live in a time where we have so many different voices. We have a much richer literature than we've ever had, and we can know America so much better.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

Better immersion than to live untouched.