Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.