No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.