I looked enviously at the over-head bead Popov had been laying in the bleeder pipe. It was as nearly perfect as I ever saw. Popov was a crackerjack structural steel welder, as good as or better than any of the men I had learned from in the General Electric plant in Schenectady.

We’ve invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they’re trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn’t make any sense to me at all.

These days – with the decline of the traditional churches – I’m concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

I don’t see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it’s perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

It’s always better if you’re next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don’t always come up in a conference call.

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they’re welcome. The books aren’t there to accuse others – merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn’t, it’s covered in golf balls.

People of this teenager’s age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don’t know about seems rather extreme.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It’s probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

An accomplished three-sport athlete, Corey led the state with 56 catches for 1,029 yards and 13 touchdowns. He also hauled in eight interceptions from his defensive position. Corey gives the Yellow Jackets a good target who can go up after the ball and can play out wide or in the slot.