The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

One's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.