Má leaves me but I'm not alone, and a terrifying thought creeps into my head. Family is now something I have created and not just something I was born into.

Serious art is born from serious play.

I'm such a fan of nature, and being with the trees every day fills me with joy.

While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.

It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

Beware the ire of the calm.

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.