You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.