This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
In Utah, the American melting pot is unstirred. Three out of four people are Mormons, and they are all here in this bleakly beautiful… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
