If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat