Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

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

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

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

Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.