This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.