Everything truly important is washable.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.