No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

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

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

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.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.