Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.

Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.