I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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

If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.