Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

Texas is : 'trotting' journalism, history in a hurry.

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in…

I feel a sort of yearnin' 'nd a chokin' in my throat When I think of Red Hoss Mountain 'nd of Casey's tabble dote!