Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.