A family can be the bane of one’s existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one’s existence. I don’t know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely...

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

…Imagine having to ask whether you can go barefoot or not…But she remembers similar requests and prohibitions now, from twenty years and more back. “The childhood years are the best years of your life…” Whoever...

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read…

Why? is the boy’s motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it’s all grist to the mill of why.