New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.