Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

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

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.