Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.
Toni MorrisonI don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.
Toni MorrisonClever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
Toni MorrisonI am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.
Toni Morrison