Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.