The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different points in different people's lives, and obviously there are lots of people who experience the presence of death much more keenly and much earlier than I did. But we all come to grips with it eventually.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

I am not an Internet superstar.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

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.