The odds on any intelligent person having an unhappy childhood are better than fair, and the odds on a sad ending are practically off the board.

Happy the man with a book-length grievance - and rare. Each of these books contains one possible magazine article surrounded by more padding than an offensive …

Both of them were artists with highly developed personas, and hence unreliable witnesses to their own pasts.

The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers- And that cannot stop…

She had got up behind the chaise and her cloak had been caught by the wheel and was jammed in and it hung there. She was crying after it. Poor thing. Mr. Graha…

Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty…