Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
“It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.”
“I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.”