At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.

Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

The Future, ” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Liberty is not enough.

A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

I'm not gonna change my way of dance because I lost and the judge tells me I should do it a certain way.

You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.