Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.