While getting away from TX by going to FL in 2006:
"If I ever work hard enough to get a book advance, I think I’ll come to Florida to finish the book, then Europe to edit."
"The grande mocha is this century’s big mac."
"The great suburban desert landscape that is the Wal-Mart parking lot."
"The great washed masses who have never seen a pedestrian before."
"The abundance of evangelically-themed businesses, little fishy line drawings. 'Agape Shears.'"