Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.

As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.

What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.