It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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.