Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

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

I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye