Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.