Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

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

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years