We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in 's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we p...

Tucker finally parked next to me. We joined Cooper who stared at a hawk flying over the woods. I’ve had my eye on you since the Devils came to town, Cooper said, glancing at me. Ignore the romantic vi...

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the r...

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified . . . It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of...

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are. They’re sorting it all out for us.

She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his G...

November the seventhThe lastFaint cricket

No. I wasn’t there. I was back in Gladstone, Pennsylvania, and I was twelve years old. Two state troopers were in the driveway, with a white car parked . . . and swiftly they were striding to interrup...

Lace: Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?Cal: Um, maybe?

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.Love becomes greater and nobler and mightier in calamity.We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a women decides to sleep with a man, the...

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti--no fancy modern clothes for him...

In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as I have by me at the moment.(a) Entropy is that portion of the intri...

If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream.

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.

I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject...

I don’t know how long it takes for me to realize that isn’t going to happen,that she is gone. But when I do I feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I...