She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.