I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.