Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness -- learn something new.

To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

Health and healthcare are not synonymous

I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

He bats like a lightning rod.