The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.