It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

Downstream is always someone else's up.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year.

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.