The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.