He Looks Like He Could Be Taken

Go To It. Be Bold. Be True. Be Kind. Rotate Your Tires. Don't Drink So Much. There Aren't Going To Be Enough Liver Transplants To Go Around.

Who But An English Professor Would Threaten To Kill A Duck A Day And Hold Up A Goose As An Example?

A Couple Years Ago, The Novelist Russell Banks Told Me He Was Reading The Ancient Greek Historian Herodotus. I Asked Why. He Said, 'because I've Always Wanted To And Am Tired Of Having My Reading Assigned.' I Thought It Was A Marvelous Declaration Of Independence.

If You Work At Comedy Too Laboriously, You Can Kill What's Funny In The Joke.

My Books Are Elegiac In The Sense That They're Odes To A Nation That Even I Sometimes Think May Not Exist Anymore Except In My Memory And My Imagination.