But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. - Ralph Ellison

All boundaries down, freedom was not only the recognition of necessity, it was the recognition of possibility.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.