I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.