I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
We read to know that we are not alone.
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.
I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.
We're teachers, and we have a commitment. " "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.
I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.