Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.

All that grieved me - that I was half one thing and half another and nothing wholly - was the sorrow of my childhood, but the strength and use of my life after I grew up.

Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?""Alive, " I say.

It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.

The form is the possibility of the structure.

The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.