Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.