He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.

I'm scared as hell to fall for you." He loosened his embrace, cupped her face in his hands, and kissed her tenderly. "But I'm more terrified to let you go.

Each heartbreak is a little death, all the same.

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities

They say when you take revenge against another you lose your innocence.

You can't have genius without patience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

We're all hookers in one way or another.