A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

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

Man cannot live by profit alone.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.