"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."

"The very thing that you are looking for is that which is looking."

"Dat's de truth, for it's de only thing dat ain't subject to change."

"I am not a writer. I am a storyteller."

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."