I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.