How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.