You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it human and otherwise are...
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
