Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."

Mushy reviews are a breach of faith