How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.