To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.