A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

Everything truly important is washable.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.