She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.