Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

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

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.