From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.