It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.