Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.

Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.