“I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.”

“We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human what Lesser means by grandeur and intimacy and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the conti...”

“For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.”

“Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You cant for long conceal the toxic spots on your characterPhilip Larkin is Exhibit Anor can you conceal your dignity, your hum...”

“Be sweet to one another. Stay in this beauty and brawl against the world's power of pulling apart. Recall Old Testament terminology: covenant, sacred, sacrifice. And mind always that Adam wasn’t a ...”

“Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character—Philip Larkin is Exhibit A—nor can you conceal your dignity, your ...”

“One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.”

“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”

“Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is curtailed, more if they are married. How can marriage provide security? In any case a husband is a p...”

“Theres no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”

“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled enemy?”

“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.”