The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.