Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.

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

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

You have to do disappointment twice.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

The neighborhoods I grew up in were poor and full of drug users. I don't think you have to look that hard to find those kinds of lives. But I also don't think you have to have experienced it really close to be able to empathize.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.