I Had Been Educated With Free Scholarships.

[the Church's] Job Is To Provide Permanent Solace And Spiritual Leadership To The People As A Whole, Whatever Their Government At The Moment, So Long As It Stays Within The Bounds Of Moral Decency.

I Write At Eighty-five For The Same Reasons That Impelled Me To Write At Forty-five; I Was Born With A Passionate Desire To Communicate, To Organize Experience, To Tell Tales That Dramatize The Adventures Which Readers Might Have Had. I Have Been That Ancient Man Who Sat By The Campfire At Night And Regaled The Hunters With Imaginative Recitations About Their Prowess. The Job Of An Apple Tree Is To Bear Apples. The Job Of A Storyteller Is To Tell Stories, And I Have Concentrated On That Obligation.

Writers Turn Dreams Into Print.

I Think The Crucial Thing In The Writing Career Is To Find What You Want To Do And How You Fit In. What Somebody Else Does Is Of No Concern Whatever Except As An Interesting Variation.

I Feel Myself The Inheritor Of A Great Background Of People. Just Who, Precisely, They Were, I Have Never Known. I Might Be Part Negro, Might Be Part Jew, Part Muslim, Part Irish. So I Can't Afford To Be Supercilious About Any Group Of People Because I May Be That People.