I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.