Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.

When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself) is part of human nature. Parties are battles (most parties), a conversation is a duel (often). Everybody's trying to hurt first, to get in the dig that will make him or her feel superior, feel triumph.

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.