History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.