And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though time were not sequential in nature but took place without a beginning or an end, like a flash of green light rippling outward from the center of creation, not unlike a dream inside the mind of God.

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.