Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.

It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.

The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.