We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

* That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon i…

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.