Many friends are the key to happiness
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day. . . the here, the now.
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.