I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us