There’s something to be said about a slightly plump person – you have just enough of too much.
When people say you’re charming you’re in deep trouble.
At the door I planted a kiss on Paul’s mouth with an uncontrollable ardor that I actually did feel-a kiss of treachery, for I could still taste the other man in my mouth.
Looking at the horizon again, I saw a lone figure coming toward me, but I wasn’t frightened because I was sure it was my mother. As I got closer to the figure, I could see that it wasn’t my mother, but still I wasn’t frightened because I could see that it was a woman.
The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.