Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

Everything I was doing when I didn't have deals was preparing me for when I did

I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

Words to deeds cold breath gives.