... Every Human Being Is An Unprecedented

I Will No Longer Take Anyone's Word For My Experience.

The Relatively Conscious Whites And The Relatively Conscious Blacks, Who Must, Like Lovers, Insist On, Or Create, The Consciousness Of The Others In Order To End The Racial Nightmare And Acheive Our Country.

Europe Has What We [americans] 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.

Perhaps Home Is Not A Place But Simply An Irrevocable Condition.

When You're Writing You're Trying To Find Out Something Which You Don't Know.