This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Intelligence forbids tears.