I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals. "
Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job. ' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s. . . [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish. ]
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.