If we had no language we'd have nothing.

Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me.

I thought the whole world was like Lorain.

I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?