Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

You can’t know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we’re reading or writing.

Maybonne said “Just because someone has lace-up hip huggers does not mean they can control the world”. Then Magreet let her wear those pants. When my aunt saw them on her she shouted “Are you trying to kill me?!

He’s picked clean! Eaten by cats!

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn’t analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone’s work.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women’s restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

I’ve gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I’ve never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country but it might not be the same god as the god of the church and I might not be digging on the message of the president because the windmills of his mind are cracked on a lot of subjects concerning people.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me.

You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you’re not. That’d be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the ‘hello’ is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?