Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.