And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

He dipped her low and kissed her fiercely, as if he were angry, and each time his lips left hers, even just for half a second, the most parching thirst ran through her, making her cry out.

I can hardly remember my bleak life before you.

I know that whenever I feel my world turningupside down, nothing grounds me like a manicure.

Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?""I'm sort of in between gigs right now, " Daniel said.

Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.