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.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.