Not Writing The Same Kind Of Book

When I Was Growing Up I Used To Think That The Best Thing About Coming From Des Moines Was That It Meant You Didn't Come From Anywhere Else In Iowa. By Iowa Standards, Des Moines Is A Mecca Of Cosmopolitanism, A Dynamic Hub Of Wealth And Education, Where People Wear Three-piece Suits And Dark Socks, Often Simultaneously.

Houses Aren't Refuges From History. They Are Where History Ends Up.

I Can't Think Of Anything That Excites A Greater Sense Of Childlike Wonder Than To Be In A Country Where You Are Ignorant Of Almost Everything.

Life Just Wants To Be; But It Doesn't Want To Be Much.

99.99 Percent Of All Species That Have Ever Lived Are No Longer With Us.