Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go somewhere else to make it. That's all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That's how the country was settled.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.