Once in a while there were things in screenwriting that taught me things for fiction. But there's nothing in screenwriting that teaches you anything for the theater. I'm not sure I've ever fully appreciated before how different a form theater is.

Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

Writers are only rarely likable.

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.