You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

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

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

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

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.

And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I’ll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.

Success is always earned with patience.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.

I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?