I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Life is a state of mind.