The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.