I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.
When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.