As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.