WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.