“I can't remember the names of all the clubs we went to.”

“Club Secretary: "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"T.E. Lawrence: "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.”

“I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket.”

“You can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all, you can't just stop attending.”

“Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.”

“We grew up in places like Georgetown and Alexandria and Chevy Chase; we were flown in great thumping silver Pan American airplanes all the way to Rome, all the way to Greece, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, Hamra, Cairo; we went to American Community Schools; we spent weekends swimming at the American Club.”