I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.