Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

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

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

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

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.

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