Sometimes there are no answers.

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.

In her desperation she consulted Penny Thornton, an astrologer introduced to her by Sarah Ferguson. Diana admitted to Penny that she couldn't bear the pressure of her position any longer and that she...

Did he put hands on you? Not quite. I think that was going to be next, but O'Brian drew him off. Before that, Clifton got angry I wasn't telling him whatever he wanted to know and accused me of being...

Meanwhile, a serving of broccoli may contain sixty aphids and/or mites

He begins collecting books as well as passions, he knows that the hunt for books, like sexual pursuit, enriches the geography of pleasure.

All the profits that Papa made by the sweat of his brow from his mill she extorted from him and spent the lot on expensive dressmakers who made her luxurious dresses. But she was too mean to wear...

Here's a nifty solution: Each couple that marries should take on an entirely new surname, chosen however they want as long as both agree to it, so that a day after the wedding, both husband and wife...

He always tried to be different, even when it didn't matter. It was as if he acted instead of living.

Ifemelu told her about the vertigo she had felt the first time she went to the supermarket; in the cereal aisle, she had wanted to get cornflakes, which she was used to eating back home, but suddenly...

his own will always be seen as different

{...} what I wish for Chizalum is the following: that she is full of opinions, and that her opinions stem from a well-informed, humane, and open mind. That she have health and happiness. That she have...

When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn't matter when you're alone together because it's just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race...

How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted? Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been.

A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves

Ifemelu wanted, suddenly and desperately, to be from the country of people who gave and not those who received, to be one of those who had and could therefore bask in the grace of having given, to be...

All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please these men. There are far fewer guides for men about...

«In memory of the countless men and women of all creeds, nations, and races who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in the Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.»

That is why I argued that to counteract the state of ignorance and stupidity that could bring to workers the mechanical nature of their tasks, education was indispensable and should be financed, for...

Literature is pure artifice, but great literature manages to disguise it and mediocre literature betrays it.

Because the novel was not only a way to materialize a vocation but also a means of contributing to social struggle, to the fight between good and evil from an ethical point of view.

He continued receiving the salary he was entitled to as a university professor when he reached retirement age.

The committee became an aristocracy and created a religion to justify their privileges.

Sometimes, relationships built on damage are more persistent than those based on love.

Only by being absolutely free can one dance well, love well, and write well. All these activities are tremendously important.

The dead steps down from the guillotine, carrying under his arm his sacrificed head. Apple trees are in blossom. The dead makes his way to the village tavern, and everyone watches. There, he pulls a...

No one is ever safe. So why not live as much as you can?

She thought you should be able to keep your private life private for any reason or for no reason. She even felt that way about politicians - so long as they weren't hypocrites - and worried that we'd...

It was the women of Afghanistan, my mother believed, who - once they'd been granted access to books and education - would be the salvation of the country