And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

Writing is a political instrument.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

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

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.