Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

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.

...and yet I am what they think I am.

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