In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" anymore without wincing.

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

Power: a currency that never went out of style.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri