You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction-no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.

Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.

You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction-no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.