I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.

You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.

Have you shat, my child, I said gently.

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.

...The less I think of it the more certain I am.

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.

High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.

I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.