Lit white tanks of oil refineries and petrochemical plants. Well, said Giordino without any particular expression in his voice, is now a good time for a chorus of ‘Old Man River’? The Mississippi, Pit...
And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader worship, superstition—assume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists...
I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.
She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.
She told herself a story about a daughter in a family so hungry for a daughter that it would have eaten her alive if she hadn't run away.
We change from the awakening questing creatures we were once, afire with wonder, and expectancy, and doubt, to persons of opinion and authority, our habits formed, our characters moulded in a pattern
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen t...
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when...
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.