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.

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

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

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.