The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.