Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.