If you don't know when your good, how can you know when your bad?

If you don't know when you're good, how can you know when you're bad?

If you stand back far enough, anything and everything is nothing.

We need a politician who hates politics.

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.