Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace this one.
The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
Art has to be a kind of confession.
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is battle, love is a war; love is growing up.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
