Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.