Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.