"With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books."

"You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values."

"I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth."

"Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man."

"It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously."

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

"I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable."

"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are."