…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

The heart of the Pharisee is within us all, to redefine God's law so it doesn't apply to me anymore. It applies to my neighbor but not to me.

Life comes at you hard and fast, it doesn’t slow for anybody. It weathers you, destroys you. It breaks down your mind, body, and soul until there’s nothing left. Then what?

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

I learned to love stories by listening to them.

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.