Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?