“It ain't have no place in the world that exactly like a place where a lot of men get together to look for work and draw money from the Welfare State while they ain't working. Is a kind of place where hate and disgust and avarice and malice and sympathy and sorrow and pity all mix up. Is a place where everyone is your enemy and your friend.”

“It was a summer night: laughter fell softly: it was the sort of night that if you wasn't making love to a woman you feel like you was the only person in the world like that”

“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”

“But big headlines in the papers every day, and whatever the newspaper and the radio say in this country, that's the people Bible.”

“A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.”

“For I shall be far away, before these lines are read, in a place where no one will dream of coming to look for me.”

“I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.”