City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

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.

There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.

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

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

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.