Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

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 suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

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