Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
“I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.”
“American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.”