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

Zen is the vehicle of reality.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

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

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

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