In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.