Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

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

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.