We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.