Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

Political elections are not life and death.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.