I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Live in such a way that the world will be glad you did.

Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.