Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky.