Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.

The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.