When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.