Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed..

I get rational when I panic..

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thri….

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time..

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story..

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey..

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive..

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story..

Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describ….

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up..

Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the quest….

And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder..

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself..

I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequ….

All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell….

A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there..

I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's go….

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be..

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me..

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line..

I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and th….