Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.