I Kept Careful Record Of The Impact

I Would Suppose I Learned How To Write When I Was Very Young Indeed. When I Read A Child's Book About The Trojan War And Decided That The Greeks Were Really A Bunch Of Frauds With Their Tricky Horses And The Terrible Things They Did, Stealing One Another's Wives, And So On, So At That Very Early Age, I Re-wrote The Ending Of The Iliad So That The Trojans Won. And Boy, Achilles And Ajax Got What They Wanted, Believe Me. And Thereafter, At Frequent Intervals, I Would Write Something. It Was Really Quite Extraordinary. Never Of Very High Merit, But The Daringness Of It Was.

The Really Great Writers Are People Like Emily Brontë Who Sit In A Room And Write Out Of Their Limited Experience And Unlimited Imagination.

I Was Born To A Woman I Never Knew And Raised By Another Who Took In Orphans. I Do Not Know My Background, My Lineage, My Biological Or Cultural Heritage. But When I Meet Someone New, I Treat Them With Respect.... For After All, They Could Be My People.

Don't Put Off For Tomorrow What You Can Do Today Because If You Enjoy It Today, You Can Do It Again Tomorrow.

I Thought That Perhaps The Most Creative Mix For A Society Would Be Nine Parts Solid Worker From Institutions Like Mit To One Part Poet From Marrakech, But In Spite Of The Fact That I Myself Had Been Trained To Be One Of The Solid Workers, Which Meant That All Of My Sympathies Lay With That Group, I Would Not Surrender The Poet. The Problem Was To Find Him.