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

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

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

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.

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

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