Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

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

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.