As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family