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

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

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

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

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.

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

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