“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in...”

“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”

“You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like t...”

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the on...”

“See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here,...”