Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

The characters Im most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You dont see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.