Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

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

In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.