Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.