I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.