Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.