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

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.