Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.