The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

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

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.