Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They can't even walk straight.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

To a valet no man is a hero.

My religion has no geographical limits.

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.