The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

If it's important, your heart remembers.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.