Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.

You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better.""Define BETTER with that guy.""Not all fangs and raaaaar.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

I really have been blessed and fortunate to have accomplished what I have. I hope to do this for a long time. It's such an enjoyable job. I love to do it.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

The Olympics in '80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.