The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.