Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.

We just have to believe that God is bigger than the junk happening to us.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.