The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)
Books
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
Sex, Intimacy
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Children
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