The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.