Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. With George Bush, that charge would never stick.

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.