Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

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.

One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

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