The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.