More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.
I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.