Success and money can really be quite blinding.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.