Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.