Orchid Hunting Is A Mortal Occupation.

If You Had Really Loved Something, Wouldn't A Little Bit Of It Always Linger?

It Seems That Half The Point Of Being In Miami Beach - Particularly The Northern End Of South Beach - Is To Be Observed By People-watchers Like Me, And The Display Along Ocean Drive During My Visit Was, As Always, Sublime.

I Love Convincing A Reader That An Unusual Or Seemingly Ordinary Subject Is Worth His Or Her Time - It's Part Of The Fun For Me As A Writer.

I Really Believed That Anything At All Was Worth Writing About If You Cared About It Enough, And That The Best And Only Necessary Justification For Writing Any Particular Story Was That I Cared About It.

I Think Of Myself As Something Of A Connoisseur Of Procrastination, Creative And Dogged In My Approach To Not Getting Things Done.