"Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus."

“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain. You would like to play the piano, but the rain comes to sit alongside and play an accompaniment. And then the dry weather returns, which is to say there is steam and bright light. People age quickly.”

“If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media

“For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.”

“I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“My carbs kick in at dinner, which makes no sense.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.”

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

“My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.”