the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.