I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.