The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.

Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.