The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.