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

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

I am nobody but myself.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.