To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

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

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform