The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

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

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

All art is a kind of confession.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.