When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

We are all worthy of one another.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.