Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.