America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.