Occupation: Author Birth: June 16, 1937 Death: January 17, 2010
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest..
The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done..
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry..
This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural..
Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any de….
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked..
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness.
Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver..
Sometimes I amaze even myself..
It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special..
What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she a….
And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried..
There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling..
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fata….
Jenny, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like….
What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And m….
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps..
The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think thin….
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love.
What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?.
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxi….