Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.