"We are poor because our elites from way back had no sense of nation."

":Quoted by Kishore Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, 2010, p. 89"

"They ain’t been here long ’nough. They just barely human. Maybe not even. They suck up the world, don’t taste it."

"The intimacy of her mother’s hands and the warmth of the water lulled the Girl into a trance of sensuality she never …"

"Only frustrated people smoke too much and only lonely people are frustrated."

"I can never get a zipper to close."

"I didn't think I'd be true to a man again as long as I lived..."

"There is no such thing as children’s literature."

"Literature is an affair of letters."

"So it is that bird and man, Sun and moon Are born and die in Brahma the Sacred– Where all things become one."