You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.