Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

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

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.