Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
Life ain't the movies.
It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.