I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

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 a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.