We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.