I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

Failure: the renewable resource.

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.