It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
Isn't love more important than colour?
Everything was as it had been between us, and at the same time everything was different.
Elisha,' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says, you remember - please remember - I was saved. I was there.
Beneath the face of anyone you ever loved for true - anyone you love, you will always love, love is not at the mercy of time and it does not recognize death, they are strangers to each other - beneath...
All the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
It is the responsibility of free men to trust and celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so—and to apprehend the nature of c...
Whoever debases others is debasing himself. That
Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New York — ’He was smiling. I stopped.‘What do you feel in New York?’ he asked.‘P...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin—like its multitudinous, hard-boiled descendants—is a catalogue of violence. This is explained by the nature of Mrs. Stowe’s subject matter, her laudable determination to flinch from...
To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.
Shalott?
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.
I moved, looking for a cigarette. They were in my hand. I lit one. In a moment, I thought, I will say something. I will say something and then I will walk out of this room forever.
He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.
You get so used to being hit you find you're always waiting for it. (...) How can I say what it feels like? I don't know. I know everybody's in trouble and nothing is easy, but how can I explain to yo...
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.