Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.