You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.