I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Time is how you spend your love.

When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.