I worked because I could control it.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.