I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.

Unhappy failures need not apply.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said.