Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.