Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.