I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.

When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he thought it was about orchids that seduced humans so completely that they were compelled to steal them and worship them and try to breed new and specific kinds of them and then be willing to wait for nearly a decade for one of them to flower.

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.