“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.”
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”