When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
“True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.”
“I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.”