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

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

Respect and fear are two different things.