profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.