Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.