The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

I won't ever do e-mail.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?