I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.