The Genius Of A Folk Melody Or

The World Is So Huge That People Are Always Getting Lost In It. There Are Too Many Ideas And Things And People Too Many Directions To Go. I Was Starting To Believe That The Reason It Matters To Care Passionately About Something Is That It Whittles The World Down To A More Manageable Size. It Makes The World Seem Not Huge And Empty But Full Of Possibility.

Keeping Animals, I Have Learned, Is All About Water. Who Even Knew Chickens Drank Water? I Didn't, But They Do, And A Lot.

I Love Writing Traditional Magazine Pieces, And Especially Their Breadth Of Reporting And The Deliberateness Of The Writing.

When My Son Was Born, And After A Day Of Lying-in I Was Told That I Could Leave The Hospital And Take Him Home, I Burst Into Tears. It Wasn't The Emotion Of The Moment: It Was Shock And Horror.

Borders Had Lousy Management And Made Bad Corporate Decisions, So Its Fate Is Less Like A Terrible Accident Than A Slow-motion Slide Into A Ditch, But It's Hard To Be Happy About A Bookseller's Demise.