I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.