Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

All Thing Serve the Beam

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone