"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

“Work could cure almost anything”

“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

“I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?”

“You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.”

“October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.”

“There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently”

“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”