If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

I can speak of you now to anyone because I’ve stopped wanting anything like what I once wanted from you.

Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.

Our stomachs live in towns, " said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

I can't love you unless I give you up.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.