I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

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.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.