I may be the wrong person for my life.

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

The essence of sport is courage.

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.