Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "File and forget." - Ralph Ellison

Not only could you travel upward toward success but you could travel downward as well; up and down, in retreat as well as in advance, crabways and crossways and around in a circle, meeting your old selves coming and going and perhaps all at the same time.

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.

"New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream."