Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

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.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.