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“Inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The mere fact of having published a second-rate book of sonnets makes a man quite irresistable. ...

I’m still thinking about cats. And writers. And writers that loved cats. One of my favorite writers of all time, Thomas Hardy, had a number ...

When God made the world, He chose to put animals in it, and decided to give each whatever it wanted. All the animals formed a long line befo...

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures and cats like authors for the same reasons.” -- Robertson Davies -- ...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, sign...

“What if the Devil himself should be at my very elbow!” -- Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown – Today is Nathaniel Hawtho...

When power leads man to arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him o...

I must confess that one of my favorite programs on television is The Simpsons . Also, I am greatly interested in theology. As su...

“Anything containing his prose and pictures deserves a low bow, a twenty-one-gun salute, and a bottle of champagne over the noggin.” -- N.Y....

I went to the supermarket this afternoon and picked up some bread, milk, cat food, and Mennen Extreme Speed Stick. This last thing, the und...

A Frenchman can humiliate an Englishman just as readily as an Englishman can humiliate an American, and an American a Canadian. One of Canad...

Lake Superior: the most N.W. of the five Great Lakes, and the largest body of fresh water in the world. -- Grolier’s Encyclopedi...

Years ago, to say you were a writer was not the highest recommendation to your landlord. Today, he at least hesitates before he refuses to r...

Seasons Greetings from the Mega-Bookstore! If it was one degree more hot today I would have melted like that witch on the Yellow Brick Road...

When you’re a writer, you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you, a...

One of the funniest books I have ever read, was a travel book. Go figure! It was Bill Bryson’s In A Sunburned Country . A s...

You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now an...

Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dre...

My best friend wears a Rolex watch. But it’s not real. It’s one of these knock-offs, an imitation. Seriously though, you w...

I am just sitting here in the mega-bookstore on a hot hot HOT humid day. Drinking a hot coffee. Interestingly enough (or n...