Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.