E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.