All racists are irresponsible.

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.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.