Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.