Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

A child can educate just about anybody.

People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.