Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.