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

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!