The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.