Are you okay? You seem ...soggy.""Soggy?""Yes." Heather nodded. "Like you're a depressed spaghetti noodle or something.

Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.

no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me

The luxurious ache of tired but not weary limbs.

I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.