Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon i…

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.