“When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2, 000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?”
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
My mom was paranoid about my safety.
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.