Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile. - John Updike

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

Now nuns have blended into everybody else or else faded away. Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless any more, everybody wants their fun. No more nuns, no more rabbis. No more good people, waiting to have their fun in the afterlife. The thing about the afterlife, it kept this life within bounds somehow, like the Russians. Now there's just Japan, and technology, and the profit motive, and getting all you can while you can.

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.