We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

Who gathers the withered rose?