There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.