When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.