The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.