Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.