Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

I bought a Christmas tree for twenty dollars. When I came home the next day, my wife was wearing it in her hair.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.