Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.