Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

My weapon is literature

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

One would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.