he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.

State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.