I’d left them because I’d loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people...

There’s a school of thought today that rejects patriotism. People are made nervous by that intense allegiance to a country. They think it can only lead to war and bloodshed and that fights can be...

The world always seems like it’s going to hell when you’re depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That’s what makes it so hard to tell the difference between...

A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you’ll choose...

Alex got angry at me because he said I didn’t understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn’t understand. Not then.

And the air–I don’t know how to describe it exactly–it had that strange cool spring feeling in it, that feeling as if you remember something wonderful but you’re not quite sure what it is.

North,” said the face beneath the sheet. “I belong to the National Association of Broadcasting Employees and Technicians. If you wake me up before I’ve slept twelve hours, I get paid short turnaround.””But Rose–“”If you...

With effort he opened his eyes again. Was someone there with him in the dusk? Yes. Someone was standing above him, looking down at him. Tom squinted, trying to see through the gloom. Then he...