The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.