Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.