If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.
The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into as small a space as possible.
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
My style has always been very free, easy, relaxed, and slightly androgynous.
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject. ' This was a very healthy attitude.
I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free.