The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.