I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.