It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.

The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.

The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.

Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

Whether by plane, bus or carpet, own the magic in your ride.

I'm not a first-place person.

It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

Can I touch your mango?

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

Government cannot be your parent.

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.