You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.