It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.