Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.

To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] . . . the second . . . that one must never, in one's life, accept . . . injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.