It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.

He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.