"I need to stay as ignorant in the art of teaching as I want them to remain in the art of literature. The assignments …"

"people think that they have to use their brains to figure out how best to retaliate or how best to make war. And it b…"

"You know in my lifetime, Jews have been very close to Blacks, really have had very close relations, and I just happen…"

"If you I live long enough you really become patient. People improve. If they're already wonderful, they become slowly…"

"I was happy, but I am now in possession of knowledge that this is wrong. Happiness isn't so bad for a woman. She gets…"

"It is still hard to believe that a man who sends out the Ten Commandments every year for a Christmas card can be so e…"

"He settles in the kitchen because the children are asleep all over the rest of the house. I unknot his tie and offer …"

"I thought of praying for divine guidance in line with the great spiritual renaissance of our time. But I am all thumb…"

"You can't talk about anything without bringing in the world. It's out there."

"The organization of his ideas was all wrong; I was drawn to the memory of myself -- a mere stripling of a girl -- the…"