...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.