Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.