There's No Narcotic Like Exhaustion.

I'm A Fifty-three-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A Ten-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An Eighty-year-old Writer.

I'm A 48-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A 10-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An 80-year-old Writer. I'm Also Comfortably Asocial -- A Hermit In The Middle Of Los Angeles -- A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black, A Former Baptist, An Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.

No One Was Going To Stop Me From Writing And No One Had To Really Guide Me Towards Science Fiction. It Was Natural, Really, That I Would Take That Interest.

When I Meet A Woman Who Attracts Me, I Prefer Women,' She Said. 'and When I Meet A Man Who Attracts Me, I Prefer Men.' 'you Mean You Haven't Made Up Your Mind Yet.' 'i Mean Exactly What I Said. I Told You You Wouldn't Like It. Most People Who Ask Want Me Definitely On One Side Or The Other.

Beware: Ignorance Protects Itself. Ignorance Promotes Suspicion. Suspicion Engenders Fear. Fear Quails, Irrational And Blind, Or Fear Looms, Defiant And Closed. Blind, Closed, Suspicious, Afraid, Ignorance Protects Itself, And Protected, Ignorance Grows.