A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.
From John Updike
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
There's something very reassuring... about the written record.
I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.
My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it.
The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.
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