New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Only the Creator defines path of a river course.

Meddling is the evil, not indifference.

You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to 'love thy neighbor, ' connecting us with random strangers and 'friends' from distant lands.

There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.

[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text; a memoir, in fact.