The impossible is the least that one can demand.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

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.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and, for the relentless searcher, in grimly inaccessible regions of The Bronx.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.