Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.