'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

I never change, I simply become more myself.