There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.