I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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 pain.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.