Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.