There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.