If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been... - Toni Morrison

"I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life."

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."

"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."

"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"

"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."