I appreciate the gesture, but you don't have to undress in order to apologize

Your eyes betray a sadness that only a worthy man can conjure, but never solve

... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.

.... does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?

Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial

... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.

He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat.

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.

Blood is a reservoir of delights. It is a treasure trove for those who know what to look for, and how to isolate it from the rest of the junk. I know how to do both.

The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.

Take your past off life support.

Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

I've lost some friends. A lot of the girls.