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.

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.

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.

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

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