It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.