I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.
It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him