It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

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

When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.