A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.