I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

It is inconvenient, and we regret that, but it shouldn't last longer than a few more days.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.