Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

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

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something. Do you know what it's like to be a Madame in Paris, when you're too old to have any clients. No, you don't. I don't either. Write about it.

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.