Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm …

- Scott Simon

Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't tw…

- Scott Simon

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

- Scott Simon

So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in reco…

- Scott Simon

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

- Scott Simon

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American…

- Scott Simon

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being …

- Scott Simon

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

- Scott Simon

Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters?

- Scott Simon