The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
