I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

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

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.