Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
