What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?
Walter KirnI feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.
Walter KirnYou thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.
Walter KirnI love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty delights - and I like to gorge on them now and then.
Walter Kirn