We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it.