A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.