I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
James A. BaldwinMoney, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James A. BaldwinIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
James A. Baldwin