Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.

I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt.

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.