Anna QuindlenThinkers

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

American football is a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide.

The Book is at once the plane, and the train, and the road, the destination, and the journey... it is home.

Child-rearing is a kind of unique loneliness, for being competitive, those women are left in desperation who yearn to be emotionally open about problems.

The Cigarette is the only legal product that, when used as directed, causes death.

February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen.

February is when the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.

Fiction is like life, at least if it is good.

Government is leadership without a soul.

The Idea is like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Language's accuracy is one of the bulwarks of truth.