Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

Only you can change your own world. No one else.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

If you are afraid of the sunlight, you ain't a good man!

There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.

I know the city and the club, and I can tell you that when you play for Manchester United at Old Trafford, you no longer need to see the sunshine every day.

Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.