It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

A literary achievement of the highest order.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.