Possessing The Ideal Makes A Person Nervous:

When You're In Your 20s, Your 30s, Even, You Have - At Least, I Had - Vast Ambitions, And You Sit Around Mooning About These Things, And You're Depressed, Because You Haven't Done Them. And It Takes You A Long Time To Come To The Realization That If You Can't Be John Updike, Well, Then, You Can't.

March Is The Month God Created To Show People Who Don't Drink What A Hangover Is Like.

There Was A Price To Be Paid For Being Interested In Fiction And In Writing, Pushing My Family Away. Books And Authors Became My Family.

We Thank You [the Soldiers Recently Returned From The Middle East] For Your Service.

Most Men Are Prisoners At Best, Who Some Strong Habit Every Drag About Like Chain And Ball.