I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.

I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.