Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficul….

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain..

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind curren….

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow..

America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or o….

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I….

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 ….

If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my de….

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..

the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me..

The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have..

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear..

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat..

When I discover who I am, I'll be free..

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled..

The truth is the light and the light is the truth..

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies….

For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, aft….

That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity ….

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change….