Soaked in painmy suits remain standingwhen I take them off - hollow men beside the closet, a museum of days.

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.

A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.