"I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three."

“Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.”

“Just have fun and don't act like an ass... People think that is the real you.”

“I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.”

“Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.”

“I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.”

“Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.”

“Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.”

Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.199, Random House

“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”