Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense.

Run from the Furies, and they find you, as if fear were a homing device, as if literature itself, on contemplating the abyss, were an invitation to jump into i…

Crossing color, class, gender, and generational lines, the communities of addiction and recovery are as democratic as America gets. Twelve-step meetings are in…

Everybody is forever saying that the essay is dead. This is always said in essays.

'Aren't there any grownups at all?' 'I don't think so.' The fair boy said this solemnly; but then the delight of a realized ambition overcame him. In the middl…

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.