Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

I am more or less reading all the time.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even in one state, northern and southern California are like two separate countries.