The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

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

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.