When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.