The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.