“I could boast that I was a man, but I could not claim with equal certainty that I was a human being.”
“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”
“When heard someone's boasting,I could smell shit of bull from afar.”
“How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?”
“I don't mean to sound boastful, but he was my icon before he was anyone else's. Being Mrs. Fred Rogers has been the most remarkable life I could ever have imagined.”
“The question, then, was how long could a human being stay awake? Keith Richards could party for three days straight, but I wasn't sure if he counted as a human being.”