It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.