"Love is a naked shadow, On a..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.”

“Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.”

“This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.”

“Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.”

“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”

“It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.”

“When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.”

“The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.”