You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

We all know you can get AIDS from sex, but did you know that you can get sex from aides?

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.