I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the….

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, he….

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one….

...and yet I am what they think I am..

Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form...without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to….

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough..

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers..

At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or ple….

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority..

That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang..

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have i….

The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged gra….

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others..

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set..

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacri….

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms..

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it wa….

I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to w….

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I ….

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those….