Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.