“Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet”

“Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised.”

“If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.”

“One day I almost said it . . . after goin over the words in my mind, "Benjie, the greatest thing in the world is to love someone and they love you too." But when I opened my mouth, I said, "Benjie, brush the crumbs off your jacket.”

“Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.”

“Gawd might forgive but people never will.”

“Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.”