The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like hot glass. No matter how much I love my daughter, I will never love her squealing. Or maybe I will. Maybe I do. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can’t be repaired. What, if lost can’t be replaced. I love my burdens.