Nothing can be more dreadful than the burden of failure on one's shoulders..

What is it?”“A prayer.”“For a child?”She nodded.“For me?”Another nod.“On a tree?”“Trees spend all day looking up at God.

I went down like a tray of dishes

Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

What was God doing before the divine creation?