You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

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

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

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

Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

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