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

These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.