A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs..

To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no….

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the pos….

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal se….

All art is a kind of confession..

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease sa….

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer tha….

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poiso….

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative..

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people..

Whoever debases others is debasing himself..

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone..

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French..

Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the c….

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other ….

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind..

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pai….

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free..

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it..

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through..

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all..