History is where tensions were.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.