“Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?”
“My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.”
“Does it ever occur to you not to sleep with women?""No," Riley said.”
“It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.”
“Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?”
“Ain't nothing wrong with Shug Avery. She just sick. Sicker than anybody I ever seen. She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.”