Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.