For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

On the way out, I hug Mum, holding her close. 'Thank you, ' I whisper. 'For dinner - and for everything.'Mum smiles and strokes my cheek. 'There's nothing to thank me for.

The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

Why would you want any other, when you’re a world within a world?

Social media is the illusion of connectedness without the interconnectedness that makes us thrive.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

The world is made up of facts, not things.

I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such attention suggests that black men and women feel sorry for themselves.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.