For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.