you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.

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

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.