I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.