All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

My mother raised me, and then freed me.