“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”

“I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world.”

“Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed.”

“He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.”

“I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the diff...”

“The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in ...”

“Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.”

“As Kipling said, that’s another story...”

“He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Sh...”

“Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.”