Mothers aren't allowed to have favorite children!

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.

I like to go where the life is.