“ Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too.""I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer.""She said that after all she heard a… Walter Mosley
“ There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same. Walter Mosley
“ That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a clo… Walter Mosley
“ That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now the… Walter Mosley
“ It's like a door open at the side of the house and this cool breeze is blowing in over the back of my neck. The breeze is Death whispering and that door is open for me to go through anytime I want. An… Walter Mosley
“ I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me. Walter Mosley
“ The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures. Walter Mosley
“ Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger.It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body. Walter Mosley
“ Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more th… Walter Mosley
“ These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. Tha… Walter Mosley
“ Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two. Walter Mosley
“ You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it goes into the realm of fantasy. So like, if you write about a wo… Walter Mosley
“ I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide,… Walter Mosley
“ I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11 Walter Mosley
“ It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left h… Walter Mosley
“ We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. Walter Mosley
