The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.