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

Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.