Invisible Man

"I am invisible, not because of any biochemical accident, but because of the peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact."

"The world is a strange place."

"I must come out, I must emerge."

"What was this, my real life?"

"It's all meaningless."

"I don't think they would have believed me."

"The battle was over."

"I was aware of the white men's world."

"This is my life and it is my reality."

"I had been shocked out of my routine."

"Sometimes it's a good thing to be invisible."

"The sickness was deep."

"I am an invisible man."

"I don't know exactly what I do with my time."

"Let me have a little respect."

"I would construct a world in which he could live and express himself."

"All fiction is autobiographical."

"I had been a fool."

"I felt like a boy who had been removed from society."

"What a world of possibilities it suggested!"

"I am crude and clumsy in understanding."

"The mind that has no certainty is a mind that knows some freedom."

"I wish I could be of some service, but I cannot."

"I had thought them clothed in the substance of things hoped for."

"That's how the trick is done—invisibility."

"You're fixed in the public mind as an ex-con."

"I only know that in the dream I possessed authority and in the waking state I do not."

"This is a lonely business we're in."

"I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions."

"The best things for being sad is to learn something."