You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.