People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

There aren't many people who would say this about me, but the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

We ask only to be reassuredAbout the noises in the cellarAnd the window that should not have been open

She wasn't the type. Her idea of exercise was lifting a fork.

When I was 13 years old, my mom had me start getting facials in my hometown of Los Angeles.

The food is out of this world!

It looks like I have a thing for dangerous sports, don't I?

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.