Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Maybe they were terrorists!
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.