There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.