I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

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

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.