To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie