Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.