I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early..

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose..

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrot….

The big talent is persistence..

Consider We are born Not with purpose, But with potential..

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting….

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow..

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me..

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing..

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggl….

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 in….

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell..

That which could hunger, could starve..

Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable..

The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to differen….

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn..

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one?….

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whate….

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy..

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying..

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them..