My mom was paranoid about my safety.

One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

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.

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

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

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