All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

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.

...Skyscraper National Park

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.