We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

Why is the measure of love loss?

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

What did she care what became of this world when her loved ones were dead and gone?

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?

I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.

Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.