I lean against the rail and think there much be such a thing as beautiful anxiety. - Jim Harrison

Dad said I would always be “high minded and low waged” from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

I bought a ticket with the last of my money at the bus station, telling the agent that there certainly seemed to be a long, long road winding to the land of my dreams.

In Paris, however, when I said that as a gourmand, I couldn’t be a politician because they regularly shit out of their mouths and that would taint my dining experiences, the newspaper quoted me in full.