People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.