Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.