The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.