Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes...
Greatness is very boring.
Except for her weak foundation. The ruin of many a girl, I guess.
Penitence is more attainable than permission.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
Times than we ever have known.
Palindrome.
Always tried to be positive with her, although I’d learned
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That’s so random. It’s like this whole shady setup.
While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what...
We newspaper readers all have our pet vexations. Somewhere in one of those sections is the column we anxiously turn to for the sole purpose of disagreeing with the columnist. Volubly.
Truth is objective. A man should be respected for telling it, not threatened.
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
The wounds of this ruptured nation lie open and ugly.
The better part of friendship might be holding one’s tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.
TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson.
Symptomatic of this rural-urban identity crisis is our eager embrace of a recently imposed divide: the Red States and the Blue States. That color map comes to us with the suggestion that both coasts a...
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
Small change, small wonders—these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. It’s a workable economy.