Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.