What is marriage, exactly, and how could we explain it to an alien anthropologist? It’s more than just a living arrangement. Is it an endeavor, a pledge, a symbol, or an affirmation? Is it a span of s...
What do you do when you're visiting someone's house and their garden starts vanishing?
We’re sliding into a society where the first thing you need to do to demonstrate that you’re any good at something is to say that you are. Under the old rules, boasts were assumed empty until proved o...
We are only what we know.
Us elderly are the modern lepers.
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-...
To quote an early mentor, I tell the kid, ‘A journalist needs ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability.
To get the crowd to cry Hosanna, you must first ride to town on an ass.
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
Thunder splits the rift where the Sun floods in.
This is peace, if you think about it--machine-gun nests being used as picnic tables.
This Not Today attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth.
These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human.
The wheel of seasons is broken, says the spring pattern this autumn day, and so am I.
The weak are meat the strong do eat.
The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns.
The soul is a verb. He impales a lit candle on a spike. Not a noun.
The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.
The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great Malvern...When the four-minute warning goes off, the Min...