I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.