The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.
I'm not a role model or the poster child for how to do anything.
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
I remember being seven and asking my mom if I was as pretty as Monique [my best friend in grade school]. And with all the love in the world, my mom looked at me and said, 'Oh, honey, you're so funny. ' So, she doesn't lie to me. . . she answers the question by not answering and instead tells me what she thinks is my greatest strength.
I always say don't make plans, make options.
I am a creature of habit.
I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen. '
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it
Only poor people go to jail.
I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.