I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

The British have always made terrible parents.