The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.