I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. T… - James Baldwin

(You seem very troubled but not by death?) JB: Yes, true, but not at all by death. I'm troubled over getting my work done and over all the things I've not learned. It's useless to be troubled by death, because then, of course, you can't live at all. (1984)

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.