She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name was Ed Poe and you lived at 1 Elm St.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.