Man cannot live by profit alone.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

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.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.