Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

You can't. You just have to.

Caddy smelled like trees.