I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face. Life a continuous backing away from the edge.

She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.

The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.

Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don't realize it makes them slaves. It's sick.

The ways your desire could humiliate you.

How impotent my anger was, a surge with no place to land, and how familiar that was: my feelings strangled inside me, like little half-formed children, bitter and bristling.

I took on the shape of a girl.

Pamela was beautiful, it was true, and I felt that submerged attraction to her that everyone felt for the beautiful.

Love builds, encourages and strengthens.

You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you.

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker.

I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.