Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.