I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.

This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.