I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.
All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
. . . if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?
Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Instead of “How was your day?” try “What did you do in math class today?” Instead of “Do you like your teacher?” ask “What do you like about your teacher?” Or “What do you not like so much?” Let her take her time to answer. Try to avoid asking, in the overly bright voice of parents everywhere, “Did you have fun in school today?!” She’ll sense how important it is that the answer be yes.
Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No. " It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.
We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.