If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.

people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume.

I will write myself into well-being.

If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.