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

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

I can write anywhere.