Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

People ask without wanting to know.