Seattle Is This Curious Liberal Island.

If We Live Inside A Bad Joke, It Is Up To Us To Learn, At Best And Worst, To Tell It Well.

The City Has Always Been An Embodiment Of Hope And A Source Of Feeling Guilt; A Dream Pursued, And Found Vain, Wanting, And Destructive.

In Novels And Autobiographies, The First Positive Move That The Immigrant Makes Towards Assimilation Is To Buy Himself A Suit Of City Clothes.

No President Has Come Near To Rivaling Lincoln As A Writer.

Spells Of Acute Loneliness Are An Essential Part Of Travel. Loneliness Makes Things Happen.