I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.