The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength.