I Had Been Educated With

The Dead Are Dead But They Rely On Us To Fulfill Their Hopes.

I Feel Myself The Inheritor Of A Great Background Of People. Just Who, Precisely, They Were, I Have Never Known. I Might Be Part Negro, Might Be Part Jew, Part Muslim, Part Irish. So I Can't Afford To Be Supercilious About Any Group Of People Because I May Be That People.

As A Writer I Have Persisted In My Uncertainty, Alternating Between Novels Which Could Charitably Be Considered Literature And World Reporting Which By Another Stretch Of Objective Standards Might Be Called History.

For This Is The Journey That Men And Women Make, To Find Themselves. If They Fail In This, It Doesn't Matter Much Else What They Find.

If A Man Happens To Find Himself, He Has A Mansion Which He Can Inhabit With Dignity All The Days Of His Life.