witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

Who's got the last laugh now?If you will pardon the expression.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

How about peaches, dear?” murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she’s eating wedges of wet sunlight.

I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.