The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I'd keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.