I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.

I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.