If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

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.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Sons of suicides seldom do well.