Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.

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

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.