If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.

Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

When I learn that I know nothing, I realize I know more than I ever knew before.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.