Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.

A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.