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….

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….

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

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

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

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….

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble..

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

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….

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….

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enoug….

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know..

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do..

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble..

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own..

All art is a kind of confession..

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….

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous..

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

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..