I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.