I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.

If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.