God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".

I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.

Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for." --Levi

I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.