In order to travel far you have to be detached..

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves..

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affir….

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live..

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression..

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend o….

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike..

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action..

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked..

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but des….

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove..

If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they s….

Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? – diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states . Why, if the….

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas..

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own..

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ign….

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In somethin….

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked..

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me..

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashame….

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself..