An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

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.