Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.