In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic acts? I challenge you to name one...Do we need to wait until our cities lie in smoking ruins before we wake up to the fact that a first-class public library is a vital link in national defense?

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?