A sleepless spring night: Yearning for what I never had And for what never was. - Richard Wright

Don't think I'm so odd and strange ... I'm not.... I'm legion ... I've lived alone, but I'm everywhere.

I paced the floor, knowing that all I possessed were words and dim knowledge that my country had shown me no examples of how to live a human life.

If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were flitting across the doors of heaven; and since stars were merely holes ventilating heaven, the twinkling came from the angels flitting past the holes that admitted air into the holy home of God.