It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves. - Ralph Ellison

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't know, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had a long road back to the campus before me.

Closed societies are now the flimsiest of illusions, for all the outsiders are demanding in.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.