It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.