If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
Wear your boots if you wander today
All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.
The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
So, come on! Kill me if you can!!
We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.
Sometimes it's hard to take everyday concerns seriously when you think about vanished ecosystems that existed 300 million years ago and were eradicated by giant explosions. My goals haven't changed, because my goal has always been to save the world!
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.