Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.