You can't escape your past by running from it.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day.

Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

I also packed explosives." -Liz

Faith grows with exercise. You see God work miracles.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

One often has need of one inferior to himself.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.