You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own geodetic dome full of your jumpsuited followers.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.