Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

Basbanes makes you love books.

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?