Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?

Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.