whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.