If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.