There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Every reading is a misreading.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

[Donald Trump] he has pulled off something that no one believed he could do.

If it hurts, DON'T DO IT AGAIN.

No. . .I mean, I'm sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you." "It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.