People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

Adjectives are the curse of America.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.