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

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.