Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 14, 1933 Death: November 22, 2012
One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be..
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. ….
Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways..
Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you….
You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural..
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention..
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end..
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The ….
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and ….
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `T….
If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. ….
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining ….
The imagination is always the best torturer..
In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery i….
. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child..
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency.
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was t….
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that ….
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorit….
It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!.
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happe….