To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

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.