I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.