The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.