Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

A writer's work is to witness things.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.