Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention