An angry man is always a stupid man.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.