Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.