Jarrell was not so much a father. . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.
Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when y
I definitely appreciated '60s music. My uncle and I used to take long road trips to visit my grandmother when I was going to NYU. We'd listen to Petula Clark and other 60's music and sing at the top of our lungs the whole time.
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.