My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.
My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession,...
My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost every one perhaps because I never wanted to disappoint my father. His voice even now follows me now...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...